Rearing bull calves and beef crosses

[Farmer_1994]

Are there many guys just keeping there bulls and raising them up? How long are you raising them for? We are thinking of just raising all our calves and selling the bulls at around 200-225kg.

never been satisfied with the bull buyers price even in the good times. Figure we do all the work to getting them off to the races, why not take them till weaned? Our buyers will not pick a calf up unless it’s 2 weeks old which at that point for us it’s pretty much just chucking a bottle in the holder for the next 8 weeks.

 

[Stinker]

Guess it depends how much you can get. No one round me wants calves on milk so I take them all to weaning now. Not sure there is any money in it though.